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It would perhaps not be so easy to make and register, hygrometric 

 observations, although in themselves desirable ; and perhaps the most 

 valuable results in this head are embraced by the rain gage. For 

 want of room, we must omit the citations which we intended to make 

 of particular facts contained in these important results. The state 

 of New York, has set an example worthy of general imitation through 

 all the States, and the information thus obtained will lay the sure 

 foundation of general conclusions of great importance. 



24. A history of the county of Berkshire, Mass. in two parts, 

 the first being a general view of the whole county, and the second an 

 account of the several towns ; hy gentlemen of the county, clergymen 

 and laymen.— -This is a neat volume of 468 pages, large duodecimo, 

 illustrated by a map geographical and geological, and by several 

 wood cuts. It appears to be executed with all requisite fidelity and 

 good judgment 5 it is an effort creditable to the county and to the 

 several gentlemen engaged in the work, and is worthy of general imi- 

 tation. Among the authors, the Rev. David D. Field, Prof. Kellogg 

 and Prof. Dewey are conspicuous. The general account, including 

 the scientific part, is from the pen of the latter gentlemen, whose la- 

 bors have often aided the cause of science in this Journal.* 



25. History of Wyoming, by the late Isaac A. Chapman, Esq. — 

 This interesting little volume is a valuable addition to our local histo- 

 ries, and an excellent guide to the traveller in the valley of Wyo- 

 ming. The first settlement of that country, by people from Con- 

 necticut; the severe civil conflict, in relation to the right of soil and 

 the right of jurisdiction ; and the privations, sufferings and heroic 

 acts of its inhabitants, as well during that conflict as the revolutionary 

 struggle, are the principal subjects of this work. 



The facts which it contains have been collected with care — ar- 

 ranged and digested with skill and ability, and are narrated in a neat 

 and perspicuous style. 



There is an appendix, containing a statistical account of the valley 

 and adjacent region, and of its mineral riches, present situation, &,c. 



* The other historians of particular towns, are Rev. James Bradford, Rev. Gard- 

 ner Hayden, Rev. Silvester Burt, Edwin Brewer, A. M., Rev. Harley Goodwin, 

 Rev. Levi White, Rev. Jonathan Lee, Rev. Edwin W. Dwight, Rev. Samuel 

 Shepard, Rev. Caleb Knight, Rev. Alvan Hyde, Henry R. Strong, M. D., Rev. 

 Eber Jennings, Rev. Henry B. Hooker, Rodman Hazard, Esq., Rev. John Yeo- 

 mans. Rev. Joseph M. Brewster, Rev. William A. Hawley and Rev. Gordon Dor- 

 ranee. 



